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Title: Disturbing Behaviour
Cast: James Marsden, Katie Holmes, Nick Stahl, Bruce Greenwood, Katharine Isabelle
Director: David Nutter

Disturbing Behaviour is at the more lamentable end of the teen thriller spectrum. Though it would at least satisfy BBC film critic Jonathan Ross, with his recent declaration that if you are going to make a bad film at least keep it short. A criteria that Disturbing Behaviour adheres to, coming in at under an hour and twenty minutes as it does.

James Marsden (X-Men) and Katherine Isobel (Ginger Snaps) play the surviving siblings of a family beset by tragedy. Retreating from these events the family move to a small island community. There Marsden is befriended by the seemingly paranoid Stahl, and the rebellious love-interest provided by Katie Holmes (Pieces Of April). Stahl’s conspiracy theories are initially dismissed as delusion, until of course they get him. Leaving Marsden and Holmes in the firing line as the next victims.

None of these characters are really as important as the janitor of the school though, who feigns a misleading simplicity. The inclusion of him reading Vonnegut provides a connection with Marsden. And the solution the janitor comes up with provides a certain amusement.